Smartphones Making Children Autistic, Warns Experts !

Children struggle to read emotions and are less empathetic than a generation
ago because they spend too much time using tablets and smartphones, a leading
psychiatrist has warned.

Constant use of
technology such as smartphones is making today's children display borderline
"autistic" behaviour, psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist has warned.

The former
Oxford literature teacher, who retrained as a doctor, said that
children as young as five are becoming increasingly unable to read facial
expressions or show empathy, compared to children in previous generations.

The author of The
Master and his Emissary, which explored the functions of the left and right
hemispheres of the brain, added that there is evidence youngsters are “less
empathic” than four decades ago. He pointed to research done in the US within the
last decade that shows a decrease in empathy among college students and at the
same time a rise in narcissism.

He said he had heard
of increasing numbers of teachers who have had to tell their pupils what
different facial expressions mean.

He added that he had
spoken to some teachers who now find that around a third of their pupils have
problems with maintaining attention or understanding others' emotions or facial
expressions - a problem which he says is due to the increasing presence of
technology in childrens' lives

Dr McGilchrist said he
has been contacted by teachers of five to seven year olds who have estimated
that roughly a third of their pupils find it difficult to keep attention, read
faces.

Speaking to The Telegraph, he said: "Children spend
more time engaging with machines and with virtual reality than they used to in
the past, where they don't have to face the consequences of real life."

"In virtual
environments they don't have to interpret the subtle cues of real-life
environments like when they are playing with children in the woods."

He also said: “Small
children are not getting the same individual face-to-face attention as before
and when they are at home with the family, the family is multi-tasking and the
child is in front of the TV or an iPad screen which is quite worrying.”

However, other experts
say the issue is more complex. Dr Nadja Reissland, a psychologist from DurhamUniversity,
said McGilchrist's basic claim that children are less able to read emotions
than in the past was "a big statement".

She said the reasons
behind an apparent lack of empathy are complex adding “It could be true but we
need to know the background of these children.”

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